The Faculty of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program at UC

Eugene E. Rutz

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Degrees, where and when conferred:
B.S.NE. University of Cincinnati, 1982
M.S.ME. University of Cincinnati, 1987

Phone: (513) 556-1096
Fax: (513) 556-3390
E-Mail: eugene.rutz@uc.edu

Field of Specialization and Areas of Interest:

• Characterization of human health risk associated with radionuclides in soils
• Preparation of a manual on the lessons learned from the cleanup of plutonium from the environment
• Coordinating distance-based learning opportunities in the college of engineering

Recent Publications:

• Initial Evaluation of Residential Indoor Contamination Levels Resulting from Contamination of Soil, E. Rutz, J. Valentine, A. Yu, Accepted for publication at 11th Conference on Contaminated Soils, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October, 1996.
  
• Need for Expanding the Scope of Undergraduate Nuclear Engineering Education,, E. Rutz, Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 72:54-55, June 1995.
  
• Initial Characterization of Uranium Concentration in Indoor Dust, E. Rutz, J. Valentine, R. Eckart, in Decomissioning, Decontamination, and Environmental Restoration at Contaminated Nuclear Sites (DDER-'94), Mary White editor, pp:332-334, November, 1994.
• Risk Assessment Applications for Determining Cleanup Limits for Uranium in Treated and Untreated Soils, A. Armstrong, D. Layton, E. Rutz, Waste Management '94, Tuscon, Az, 1994.
• Problems Associated with Measurement and Analysis of Potassium in the Environment, R. Wood, T. Ijaz, and E. Rutz, in Decomissioning, Decontamination, and Environmental Restoration at Contaminated Nuclear Sites (DDER-'94), Mary White editor, pp:484-488, November, 1994.
• Estimating Worker Dose at the Nevada Test Site and the Tonopah Test Range, R. Eckart, T. Ijaz, in Decomissioning, Decontamination, and Environmental Restoration at Contaminated Nuclear Sites (DDER-'94), Mary White editor, pp:489-492, November, 1994.
• Initiation of a Program of Simulator-Interfaced Instruction and Research, J.M. Christenson, B.K. Hajek, D.W. Miller, E.E. Rutz, Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 70:26-27, June 1994.
• Managing SIte Remediation Using Pathway Analysis. Application to a Semi-arid Site, E. Rutz, T. Ijaz, R. Wood, R. Eckart, Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Nuclear Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, Vol 2, pg.337-342, 1993.
• First Measurement of the Left-Right CrossSection Asymmetry in Z Boson Production by e+e- Collisions, The SLD Collaboration, 1993. Physical Review Letters, Vol 70, Number 17.
• RESRAD Analysis of Exposure Estimates Bases on Site-Specific vs Generic Parameters for the Ingestion Pathway, E. Rutz, J. Green, 1993. Environmental Restoration '93, Augusta, GA.
• Working in the Nuclear Industry - Some Perspectives, E. Rutz, Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 68:402-403, June 1993.
• Methodology for Managing Remediation of Sites Containing Soil Contamination, E. Rutz, T. Ijaz, R. Eckart, R. Wood, 1993, 93-PET-19, ASME, New York, NY.

Program Responsibility:

Teaches Nuclear Power Plant Systems, a two quarter sequence course

Consulting, Industrial Employment and Other Pertinent Data:

• Reviewer for Nuclear Technology, 1982-Present
• Member State of Ohio Citizens Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety, 1987-89
• INPO Graduate Fellowship Coordinator, 1985-88, 1990-92